To the Chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars or his 
Deputy*.

14 July 1921

I have received a paper from Chicherin¹, who reports that on 11/VI² the question of the procedure for the importation and storage of English goods was decided without hearing Comrade Stein², delegated from the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. This was done despite the fact that Comrade Stein sat in the reception room from 3–9 p.m. Chicherin complains about the adoption of a resolution without the participation of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and about the fact that the resolution approved without their participation has already been published in "Economic Life".

I request that measures be taken to correct the impropriety that has been permitted.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)³

*Printed from a typewritten copy. — Ed.

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